September 2023 is the 10th birthday of the Society for One-Place Studies so, a little late in the day, I’m taking up the #OnePlaceStudies10 blog prompt. You’ll eventually find short pieces on ten people from my one-place study in North Walls and Brims, chosen because of some event in their lives in September. 11 September | more…
I’ve recently become a trustee of St John’s Kirk SCIO, in North Walls, Orkney. As I’m coming to an end of doing paid client work, I’ll be devoting some of my energy to building up a heritage resource at St John’s. It was sold by the Church of Scotland to a local group some years | more…
Exactly five years ago, on 9 January 2018, I published my first blog for the #52 Ancestors Challenge. It was entitled John Flett you’re to blame! Now it’s time for an update. If you don’t want to read the earlier blog here’s a brief summary: great great-uncle John Flett (born 1862) immigrated to Australia from | more…
